Operation Warp Speed Nih
Operation warp speed ows is a publicprivate partnership initiated by the trump administration to facilitate and accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnosticsoperation warp speed was introduced in early april 2020 after a round table meeting with industry executives at the white house on march 2.
Operation warp speed nih. Anthony fauci operation warp speed vaccine lead dr. Matt hepburn and nih director dr. That afternoon nih leadership participated in a social media telebriefing on the vaccine which has now entered phase 3 testing. Under operation warp speed the trump administrations initiative to fast track a coronavirus vaccine and treatments dod and hhs are buying 300000 doses of bamlanivimab a monoclonal antibody.
Operation warp speed is a partnership among several federal government agencies to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics including the specific goal of delivering 300 million doses of a safe effective vaccine for covid 19 by january 2021. Nih and the biotechnology company moderna inc provided an update on mrna 1273 an investigational covid 19 vaccine on the morning of july 27. From l niaid director dr. To accelerate the development and subsequent production of a vaccine for covid 19 in mid may president trump announced operation warp speed ows.
Operation warp speed is a public private partnership to facilitate at an unprecedented pace the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 countermeasures between components of hhs including cdc fda nih and the biomedical advanced research and development authority barda. The department of defense. And other federal agencies including the department of agriculture the department of energy and the department of veterans affairs. Results of this first phase 3 trial are expected in a few months.
Notably operation warp speed will manufacture promising candidate vaccines at an industrial scale before efficacy and safety are confirmed. Operation warp speed brought together a broad array of government resources to achieve a similar seemingly impossible rapid pace of development regulatory approval and distribution of vaccines to prevent covid 19. Operation warp speeds goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by january 2021 as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics collectively known as countermeasures. But no matter how quickly or successfully vaccines are developed we have been woefully ineffective in the development of other ways to tame the pandemic.
Government called operation warp speed is supporting rapid conduct of these clinical trials and making sure that millions of doses of any successful vaccine will be ready if the vaccine proves save and effective.